Reading list

Start here, then go to the sources. Everything linked is a public page; the second half is the same list as Data sources, grouped for reading.

On this site

• Guides: one for every place on the map, with a finder.
• Collections: four journeys through the places.
• Planets: nine pages with real NASA and JPL numbers.
• Free tools: sixteen finders on their own sites.
• How we pick and Disclosure: how places are chosen and how the site is paid for.

Earth and its places

• NASA Earth Observatory, Blue Marble (NASA GIBS): Base imagery of the whole Earth
• Sentinel-2 cloudless by EOX IT Services GmbH: Detailed satellite imagery (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016 and 2017)
• AWS Terrain Tiles (Terrarium): Terrain relief (SRTM, GMTED2010, USGS 3DEP and others)
• OpenStreetMap contributors, served by OpenFreeMap and OpenMapTiles: Buildings and streets
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim: Finding a place by name when you type one we do not already know (only your words are sent, once)
• Wikidata and the brands’ own sites: Where each shop really is
• Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap geo-tags; NASA NSSDCA lunar and Mars landing-site positions: Positions of airports, spaceports, ports, and Moon and Mars landing sites (name and place only)

Space

• NASA/JPL Horizons: Positions of Mars (2025 to 2030) and the state of Phobos and Deimos
• NASA Trek (Viking Mars Digital Image Mosaic 2.1, USGS Astrogeology): Mars surface colour
• NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: Moon surface colour
• IAU Working Group for Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements: Spin and pole of Mars
• Hipparcos / Yale Bright Star Catalogue via d3-celestial: Stars
• SIMBAD, CDS Strasbourg: Galaxy positions
• Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms: Sun and Moon positions (low-precision series)
• satellite.js (SGP4): Computing satellite positions in your browser

Live feeds

• USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Earthquakes in the last 24 hours, magnitude 2.5 and up
• NASA EONET: Storms, fires, volcanoes and floods open now
• NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center: Geomagnetic Kp index and the latest solar X-ray flare class
• wheretheiss.at: International Space Station position for the panel (the world draws it from orbital elements)
• CelesTrak (Dr T.S. Kelso), data from the US Space Force via Space-Track: Orbital elements for the ISS and a sample of satellites
• The Space Devs, Launch Library 2: Upcoming rocket launches and their pads
• NASA NeoWs, JPL Center for Near-Earth Object Studies: Asteroids passing close today
• MET Norway Locationforecast: Weather at a shop’s city
• US National Weather Service: Weather alerts in the United States
• NOAA CO-OPS Tides and Currents: Water level at US tide stations
• Fintraffic Digitraffic marine: Ships in Finnish and northern Baltic waters only
• NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: The title of today’s picture, with its credit and a link to the NASA page (the picture itself is not copied, as many are copyrighted)
• NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC, NExScI): The count of confirmed planets around other stars
• US National Hurricane Center (NOAA): Active tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific
• GeoNames gazetteer (cities of 400,000+ people, capitals, countries): Reading which place a news headline names, so the story sits on the map where it happened. Matching is done on our own server; no geocoding service is called.
• GDELT Project (DOC API): Headline, link and time of recent news articles (nothing else is kept)
• Radio-Browser (community radio directory): The list of public radio stations offered by the vehicle radio; each station's own stream plays from its own server and is never recorded or rebroadcast by us

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